“When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 15, 1889)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
Variant: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 2 (originally published as “Foundation” in Astounding (May 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Context: “That insufferable, dull-witted donkey! That—”
Hardin broke in: “Not at all. He’s merely the product of his environment. He doesn’t understand much except that ‘I got a gun and you ain’t.’ ”
Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 60)
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.”
“I believe the proverbial "search" doesn’t end until we die.”
Beating the drums of hope and faith (2004)
Context: What I read in the Qur’an, and what I learned from the words of Muhammad, Jesus and others really struck a chord with me, so I chose to implement the wisdom I found. I don’t feel as though I "changed" to any new "religion", rather, I just grew as an individual: I matured spiritually. … I believe the proverbial "search" doesn’t end until we die.
Why 'The Donald' Trumps Obama's Cult of Celebrity http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04/13/donald-trumps-obamas-cult-celebrity.html (April 13, 2011)